Apple Wants New watchOS Apps to Run Natively From June 1......

Apple on Friday made an statement to developers where it demanded all new watchOS apps submitted to the App store from June 1 will should be native apps.

The Cupertino-primarily based large on its developer web site stated, "starting June 1, 2016, all new watchOS apps submitted to the App keep ought to be native apps constructed with the watchOS 2 SDK (software program improvement package) or later."

drastically, certainly one of the largest motives to shift to local apps built with Apple's watchOS 2 SDK is to dispose of performance problems along with lag. maximum 0.33-celebration apps on Apple Watch depend on the companion app on the iPhone to do all processing and then display the results on the wearable app. This meant numerous third-celebration apps labored instead slowly.

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To don't forget, watchOS 2 was announced in June ultimate yr and was to be had to users in September. watchOS 2 become touted to make "apps faster and more fluid" via going for walks natively at the Apple Watch. The corporation had revealed new watch faces alongside announcing ability for 0.33-birthday party apps to show facts on the watch face as complications.

The watchOS 2 became claimed by means of Apple to be the "first foremost software update for Apple Watch," and taken ways to customise new watch faces together with picture, photo Album, and Time-Lapse.

some of the other features that watchOS 2 introduced encompass new conversation features together with the potential to reply via Mail with dictation, smart replies or emoji, and virtual contact which presented extra creativity with more than one sketch shades.

Apple had lower back in March released watchOS 2.2, which along iOS nine.three delivered aid for pairing more than one Apple Watches with a single iPhone. The replace additionally brought the close by feature within the Maps segment, allowing users to locate factors of hobby. watchOS 2.2 additionally introduced an enhanced glance feature.

The local app assertion to developers is exciting considering that Apple will keep its annual worldwide developers convention (popularly called WWDC) in San Francisco starting June thirteen. we will expect the enterprise to make a few main declaration concerning the watchOS of the Apple Watch alongside different announcements on software platforms for iPhones, Macintosh, and internet-enabled televisions.

An analyst recently claimed that Apple can also refresh the Apple Watch in June at its annual developer convention - WWDC.